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I wasn't actively on Tumblr or any other social media while Amphibia was coming out.
I didn't participate in any of these leaks, rumors, trends, or memes.
But I did still have an irreplicable experience. I still had a fandom reacting to Amphibia as it came out.
I made my own fandom. After falling in love with the first season, I invited my best friends over to watch it over several binge sessions. Sometimes on a big tv, but when we could manage it we set up a projector in my yard, made a campfire and had smores. I had watched the first season episode by episode as it was airing and then showed it to my friends all at once. So it was decided that would be the tradition. I watched the second season, and that had to gather all my friends and sit on a couch knowing they were about to see True Colors. I was praised for my restraint in not letting anything about it slip for over a month, and then I let out quite a lot of exasperation with a guttural "I know!" While we were going over everything we'd just seen in a frenzy, I threw in "Remember when Marcy FUCKING DIED!?" because we just had to keep sight of how crazy that was. "Remember when Marcy fucking died?" became a catch phrase/meme in our group and not long after that it became a discord emote.
Once it was time to get together for the grand finale, I was well prepared. They had a better idea of what they were in for after season two, and I knew now how much they'd love it. I had already prepared a "Remember when Anne fucking died?" emote to upload as soon as we finished the final episode. I had taken wooden coasters to my local library and lasercut the image of a member of the Calamity Trio onto each to them. When my friends arrived for the final watch party, I gifted them each one of these coasters, each one with some galaxy-pattern duct-tape on the bottom to help it glide on surfaces and not damage them. After the final episode ended I revealed that was a lie. The duct tape was actually there to hide the fact that each coaster had the adult version of its Calamity Trio member laser-engraved onto the bottom of it!
We were 23 at the time. The same age as Anne, Sasha, and Marcy in that final scene. And we felt connected like they did.
amphibia isnt just a silly cartoon its a whole immersive experience like you just have to be there . watching true colors now isn't the same as watching it after it got delayed, censored, leaked, AND the whole sprig voice in-advance warning hysteria at the beginning of the ep on may 2021 . watching commander anne now isnt the same as watching it with the "in commander anne sasha is revealed to be attracted to women" copypasta plague . watching the finales now aren't the same as watching it when the anne arm amputation one eyed sasha "anne boonchuy dies of overdose at 37 yrs old" thing was going insane . you just had to be there . what im saying is that it was a disney cartoon and we were all on drugs